Jacobus Arminius

Jacob (us) Arminius, actually Harmensz ( born October 10, 1560 in Oudewater, † October 19, 1609 in Leiden ) was a Protestant theologian from the Netherlands and the founder of Arminianism and the Remonstrants, a still existing today Christian church whose main characteristic the defense of dogma is.

Life

Jacobus Arminius was the son of a cutler and lost his father early. After his studies in Utrecht, Marburg and Leiden, where his patron Rudolph Snell introduced him into the system by Petrus Ramus, he heard in 1582 in Geneva, Theodore Beza, and visited Italy and Rome. Returned to Amsterdam in 1587, he became pastor there in the following year. At that time there were in the Dutch church is a dispute as to whether predestination is to be regarded according to John Calvin as an absolute or only as a conditional, and the church council commissioned Arminius with the refutation of the latter view. Arminius was but little by himself convinced by the arguments that he should refute.

1603 he was appointed professor at Leiden, where it was in 1604 with his colleague Franciscus Gomarus in a dispute over his claim that God the destiny of every human being from eternity predestined because he had previously seen the faith of the one and the disbelief of others. After he had 1605/ 06 involved as rector of the Alma Mater at the organizational issues, was a 1608 organized regularly between the two opponents conversation does not settle the dispute.

The views of Arminius were condemned 1618-1619 at the Dordrecht Synod of the Reformed churches, and his followers gathered for a religious community of Arminianism.